“They” have been largely successful. They didn’t 1984 the general purpose computer, they brave-new-world’ed it. The vast, vast majority of people online were convinced to use “mobile devices” for everything, and they seem to fall under different expectations than a computer (even though they technically are). Like how Cory points out that “sideloading” is even a word. And then when they actually do use a computer, it’s a work computer locked down by IT.
People are extremely lazy. They’ll trade away everything if it lets them avoid learning anything. Mobile devices aren’t the end of the story here. With LLMs they are trading away their public education, their entire future, just to avoid doing homework.
Sneakernet, people. Sneakernet.
Everything else about the internet is enshitifying, yes, we should fight it. But we’ll still be able to share 'wares either way.
Oh they’ll come for computers too. The coming war on general purpose computing Cory calls it.
“They” have been largely successful. They didn’t 1984 the general purpose computer, they brave-new-world’ed it. The vast, vast majority of people online were convinced to use “mobile devices” for everything, and they seem to fall under different expectations than a computer (even though they technically are). Like how Cory points out that “sideloading” is even a word. And then when they actually do use a computer, it’s a work computer locked down by IT.
People are extremely lazy. They’ll trade away everything if it lets them avoid learning anything. Mobile devices aren’t the end of the story here. With LLMs they are trading away their public education, their entire future, just to avoid doing homework.
And how do we get these wares?
We build local networks, ourselves. See Cuba’s SNET as an example.
Datahoarding is a good start.
In the old days, you could come by my house with your big box of floppies. Nowadays, I’d imagine it’s easy to carry a microsd card in your wallet.
Or networking. Site to site tunnels to friends and family, share.